1st year Live and Learn

Here are the books you'll need for the classes.
Make sure you have all of them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 .

A nice quiet afternoon  (track 038).
Letters to the editor (track 043).
Peter Parker (track 051).

You can download some texts with the marks here.
Learn more about syllables.

Self-study 2.1 (deadline 28.03)

Interactive resources to practice different aspects of your pronunciation can be found on

• http://www.cambridge.org/elt/resources/skills/interactive/pron_animations/index.htm
• https://www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/free-english-pronunciation-lessons?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

2nd year Cities and countries

You will find a variety of materials on the UK here.
Below I'm going to post links to videos and texts on the topic:

• Climate and geography of the UK
• UK vs Great Britain?
• Four nations
• Read about politics in the UK
• Interactive map of Royal Britain
• Countryside is Great (part 1)
• Countryside is Great (part 2)
• Heritage is Great (part 1)
• Heritage is Great (part 2)
• How London has changed over the years

An online quiz on London sights

Materials related to the USA are here. 

US national parks

Scenic views

Yosemite

the Smoky Mountains

Grand Canyon

Yellowstone

Washington DC

Take a holiday walk through Washington

New York City

New York quiz.

Australia and New Zealand

Materials to talk about Australia and New Zealand.

The map of Australia and other useful info.
Crossword on Australia.
Interesting facts.
Read about Sydney's history.

Link to an example of an animal fact file.
Here's the map of New Zealand.

Check your knowledge of different countries with these online quizzes.
Self-study (cities and countries) (deadline 4.04).
Materials related to Ukraine.

Materials for phonetics are in this folder.
Videos on phonetics are listed below:

• plosives
• assimilation of /t/ before /p/
• assimilation of /d/ before /g/ or /k/
• assimilation of /d/ before /b/
• assimilation of /t/ followed by /k/
• gemination /t/
• assimilation of /s/
• gemination of /s/

          Betty Batter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
          If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
          But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
          So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
          Put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
          So’t was better Betty Batter bought some better butter.

Sarah sitting in her Chevrolet, 
All she does is sits and shifts, 
All she does is sits and shifts.

And this is the link to writing materials. 

"How to" articles: instructions and examples